Hans Holbein the Younger. Image source · Public domain
The people behind the art
1497 to 1543
Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist and printmaker (1497–1543). Their work is associated with German Renaissance; Northern Renaissance. Their recorded places of work include Bologna; Florence; Rome; Venice; Basel; Lucerne; London.
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Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
Two young Frenchmen stand on either side of a table crowded with instruments of learning, while a distorted skull stretches across the floor beneath them. Hans Holbein the Younger painted this double portrait in 1533, and the National Gallery reads its objects, its optical trick and its hidden crucifix as a reflection on knowledge, discord and mortality.
Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
A gallery tour of Hans Holbein the Younger's 1523 portrait of the humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus, painted in Basel and now in London. The guide reads the sitter's pose and expression, the symbolic objects around him, the two inscriptions, and the friendship and patronage that carried the picture to England.
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